Redskins safety and special teams player Deshazor Everett was leveled with a huge fine on Wednesday, as he was ordered by the NFL to pay $48,000 for two special teams penalties he committed during the fourth quarter of last Sunday's 27-22 win over the division rival Philadelphia Eagles. Everett says the hits were each fined $24,000, according to the Washington Post.

Everett's penalties were for A) hitting punt returner Darren Sproles too early and not giving him an opportunity to catch the punt; and B) blindsiding Brent Celek with a block during a punt return.

Here's the hit on Sproles:

"My condolences to him," Everett said after the game, per the Redskins' official website. "It definitely wasn't intentional for me to just try to take a guy out of the game or anything like that. I was just out there trying to play football."

In response to being fined for the hit, Everett told the Post the following:

"It's a bang-bang play. As a punt returner, you definitely have the option to call a fair catch, and you can not catch the ball if it's a situation where you're running up towards somebody that's running up towards you. It's hard to time that perfectly, and I thought I was. His hands were going up, and he was lowering himself also as I'm going to try to tackle him thinking that, 'All right, he's about to grab the ball and I'm going to hit him with perfect timing.' I understand the fine behind it because I hit him before the ball got there and kind of hitting a defenseless player, but that's the risk when you're back there.

"You have options. You have ways to protect yourself. It's not like the guy called fair catch, and I still took a shot at him because I'm not that type of player. I thought it was perfect timing, but it wasn't. That shows you that football is a split-second game."

As for the blindside block on Celek, Everett had this to say:

"It's not like guys are just purposely going out there saying, 'Oh yeah, I'm gonna get me a crack back today and put somebody out of the game.' No. But if you can make a big block, you're going to try and make that big block right? That's a highlight for yourself. You're known as, 'Oh yeah, he's a physical guy. Don't just be running down there [without] your head on a swivel.' The guy saw me, but he just didn't have time to react, I guess you can say."

Everett, who is on a $525,000 salary this season, has appealed both fines.